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Cat in the Hat    reposted
Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)
@JoIsSummer
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The chance of catching something in hospital seems off the scale. At a time of so much pressure on an already-pressured system, we should be trying much harder to reduce risk of nosocomial infections. 
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Cat in the Hat   
@_CatintheHat
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Oct 22
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Replying to @_CatintheHat
So to answer the original question at the top of this thread:

What is my best guess re: Covid prevalence right now?

The data is extremely limited but I would not be surprised if Covid prevalence (as of 12 Oct) was somewhere in this orange band, ie. between 3-5%…

…and rising.

DJ, So 3 to 5% of UK population now infected by CoViD-19...

However there is hardly any testing-even in hospitals...So even there if people did not have CoViD they may get CoViD...

Another long term trend could be vaccines offering less and less protection-with variants getting ever better in finding ways around it. 

Co-infection with flu (and only testing for one infection-so missing the other one) may further worsen the burden on healthcare/society...

"Politics" going for crazy avoidable wars waste the trillions needed to get out of the health-linked to climate-crises...